Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

@Vygantas Lipskas, give me a break. They have NOT GOTTEN A SINGLE DOLLAR from Microsoft in this case. Microsoft would only be forced to pay if they refused to follow the law.

This is a HUGE SUCCESS for the EU! You are just angry that you always get the facts wrong and are ignorant about the reality of the case. You have always been spewing out FUD against the EU for upholding their own laws.

The EU accused MS of “unfairly using its operating system monopoly to squeeze into other software markets [the browser market]“. They wanted MS to bundle windows with MORE browsers, which of course would be at best a huge PITA for MS and at worst totally unworkable. So MS decided to sell windows in the EU with NO browser whatsoever, thus making it impossible for the EU to claim that they are using the OS to sneak in their browser. Basically, the EU’s brilliant plan backfired. Have fun with that.

If MS were to include pre-installed browsers, which ones should be included? Just the “big” ones? Do you know how many browsers exist? A lot more than five. Who can they leave out? No one?

And what about Notepad, MS Paint, Media Player, Paint, Calculator, Windows Explorer, Messenger, etc etc? There are many non-MS alternatives to those apps out there. Should MS be required to bundle all those as well? It’s really not fair for MS to leverage its OS to squeeze into those markets, is it? Hell, might as well include alternate OS’s in there too, right? We want CHOICE, and it’s MS’s job to spoon feed it to us!